Frequently Asked Questions

1. UAV-General

The “monkey skills” (as I’ll refer to them for learning how to fly the drone) are not very complicated. While you wouldn’t want to just pull our brand new drone out of the box, charge the battery and launch it without learning something about it, around 3-4 hours of learning the basics of the aircraft and its associated software can get you to safely making takeoffs, landings and flying around.

Most of the flight functions for UAV mapping are automated (due to the precise patterns and image capture requirements), so much of the work is monitoring systems rather than hand flying the aircraft. Still, you’ll want to have some level of proficiency in being able to take over manually if there’s a problem…

There are two main methods . The way we learned I’ll refer to as the (Guess, Buy, Fly, Crash, Fix… repeat) process. There are numerous online videos, drone forums, software knowledge bases for those that want to self-teach. Most professionals and businesses find it much more efficient to hire a consultant to help determine your requirements, make recommendations on hardware and software and provide the training. We can help you through all of that, or if you prefer, we can provide the mapping as a service…or help you process your data while you’re developing your knowledge…